Sonic cleaning brass

[wwboater]

Wet tumbling is the way to go for the best looking brass, not sure my reloads shoot better now or when I was using a dry tumbler but they sure look good now......

 

[BIKER13]

got me a tumbler. Brass gonna have to learn to live with what they got

 

[gyppo]

I tumble about 5 hours in Dawn and about 1/2 9mm case full of Lenin shine in a Franklin arsenal. Most people do not tumble that long.
I dry them on a towel on the floor in the winter when the humid is low and on a towel in the sun in the summer time.
The brass comes out much better than new.

you will need a media separator to get the pins out of the cases. I use a Franklin arsenal media separator.

 

[Hunterrs]

Warning, once you start down this rabbit hole, you won’t be satisfied with anything but really clean brass.

 

[Plumminfool]

Warning, once you start down this rabbit hole, you won’t be satisfied with anything but really clean brass.

100%

 

[thevalueman]

100%

AGREE!!!
it becomes a sickness....

 

[gyppo]

I will admit how bad my sickness was initially. I would deprime and resize, then tumble so that the primer pocket would be perfectly clean, then resize, mouth drop powder, seat and crimp.

that was crazy.
I now cut down the time dramatically, I tumble with the primer in and then run it through the press in one step. Half the time and it looks as good except for a small amount of discoloration in the primer pocket.

I do find it takes several days for the water to evaporate from inside the primer pocket if you leave the primer in.

 

[C ountry]

This was tumbled one hour with my home brew formula

 

[Lightning8]

Try wet tumbling minus the stainless steel pins. Similar results and a lot less work handling the pins. Key seems to be doing a quick wash with a detergent plus a little lemi-shine then a rinse to get rid of the initial dirt, residue, etc.

 

[Plumminfool]

this makes pin separation a snap